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About Me

WROTE UNDER PRESS WAS SET UP IN OCTOBER 2005 BY WRITERS, ARTISTS AND PERFORMERS LIVING IN THE MIDLANDS.
FUNDS ARE RAISED BY RAFFLES, GIGS AND HOME-MADE MERCHANDISE, INCLUDING MAGAZINES, CDRS, DVDS, GREETINGS CARDS AND OTHER BRIC-A-BRAC.
JOINING IS FREE. ANYBODY CAN CONTRIBUTE TO WROTE UNDER'S MAGAZINE 'WROTE UNDER PRESSURE.' PLEASE MESSAGE US FOR MORE DETAILS.
MEETINGS ARE HELD EVERY OTHER FRIDAY, OFTEN IN THE OLD CROWN PUB IN DIGBETH, BUT THIS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE, SO PLEASE GET IN TOUCH FIRST! IF YOU WANT TO BE PUBLISHED BY WROTE UNDER, YOU HAVE TO ATTEND MEETINGS FOR SIX MONTHS, AND HAVE AN ADEQUATE SALES PLAN.
'THE UNDERGROUND THREE GO MAINSTREAM' BY BREN HIGGINS, JIM KENNEDY AND PAUL RAFFERTY IS AVAILABLE, PRICED Â£6.50, AT ALL EVENTS LISTED HERE. THIS IS A 128 PAGE PAPERBACK FEATURING THE WORK OF BIRMINGHAM'S THREE NOISIEST POETS. THEY WILL EVEN SIGN IT FOR YOU, SO DON'T BE SCARED.
WROTE UNDER PRESS ALSO RUNS A FREE OPEN MIC, THE LAST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH AT THE ADAM AND EVE IN DIGBETH. AT THE SUNDAY XPRESS EVERYBODY IS WELCOME TO ENJOY THE WORDS, MUSIC AND RELAXED ATMOSPHERE, OR TO HAVE A GO BEHIND THE MIC, REGARDLESS OF ABILITY OR EXPERIENCE. YOU'LL HEAR EVERYTHING FROM NERVE-WRACKED FIRST TIMERS, STAMMERING THEIR WAY THROUGH THEIR FIRST POEM (WE'VE ALL - YES ALL - BEEN THERE!) TO SEASONED PERFORMERS WHO'VE APPEARED AT GLASTONBURY OR SHARED THE BILL WITH THE LIKES OF JOHN COOPER CLARKE OR ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER. SHOW STARTS AROUND 3/3.30pm.
BOOK COVER BY PAUL 'SCISSORMAN' RAFFERTY.
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My Interests

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Member Since: 5/17/2006
Band Members: Many thanks to johnnyshoeshine for this impressive new video clip of Brendan Higgins performing his poem 'Shopping!' T-shirts, as worn by the man, available on request - please message me for more details. You can find this clip at www.youtube.com/user/johnnyshoeshine.The Sunday Xpress is now in a new home at the Adam and Eve, and many a third sunday will be great for you. BUT! for 2 years and 2 months Wrote Under's open mic event was based every-last-sunday-of-the-month at the Market Tavern and played host t many weird and wonderful (and artistically innovative) acts...One turn alone stood out from the hours of footage filmed which might all surface one day (probably) - this is Dorm - this is a cover of motorhead's 'serial killer' One from the vaults!x (play loud) - ps excuse the watermark.DORM - Serial Killer
..Taken from his DVD 'Poetry & Motion' (available on request) please enjoy the above animation of his poem 'Brother Killing Brother,' written and produced by Louis Campbell...Taken from his DVD 'Poetry & Motion' (available on request) please enjoy the above animation of his poem 'Brother Killing Brother,' written and produced by Louis Campbell...
Influences: ...ARE REALLY UP TO YOU. PREVIOUS AND EXISTING MEMBERS HAVE LISTED THE FOLLOWING AMONG THEIR INSPIRATIONS: Beat poets, Godzilla, children's nostalgia with a heavy sugar overdose, WSB, Throbbing Gristle, Punk/NY scene, the shouty crackheads who hang outside Birmingham central library, Orson Welles, Sylvia Plath, Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, Rik Mayall, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Jack Nicholson, f***in Beethoven, Andrea Dworkin, solvent abuse and petrol, Hammer Studios, Lee Perry, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Germaine Greer, Lemmy, Irvine Welsh, Ian Dury, Jeff Noon, Noel Edmonds, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Brian Cant, Iggy Pop, Jimmy Page, slum city and pastoral country, John Cooper Clarke, Brian Blessed, Shakespeare, Coleridge, Augusto Boal, Jonathan Swift, George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, Grimm, Enoch Light, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Test Cards and the pages from ceefax...
Record Label: Books. We're only small. But from tiny acorns etc
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Very partial review of ’Newt’ comedy night, 19/03/08

Well what a carry on! A comedy evening with no-one larfing. But as I often say to Marcus, comedy is a serious business. Big Al from the Courtesy Group turned out to be a real hunk: but girls, steady, ...
Posted by Wrote Under Publishing on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:46:00 PST

The Real New Sunday Xpress

Hello to you my friends. This is a blog/bullettin to say that after a few days of asking around and nail/pillow biting, that we here at Wrote Under Publishing are proud to announce that after the unf...
Posted by Wrote Under Publishing on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:26:00 PST

The Real New Sunday Xpress

The Final Sunday XPress

The Market Tavern, Moseley Street, Digbeth, is being sold. It has been home to Wroteunder's Sunday XPress open mic event since January 2006. The immediate effect of this is that the Sunday XPress ev...
Posted by Wrote Under Publishing on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:34:00 PST

Newt and Cucumber gig remembered - albeit not too clearly

Comedy's a funny business. As Daminder Singh said to me: 'If the poetry's not working, try stand up.' I can and I do. But, after a few pints, I find the actual standing part the most difficult. Usuall...
Posted by Wrote Under Publishing on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:05:00 PST

Louise Does the Laughter and Sole Comedy Club (Purportedly a Review of)

It seemed like a perfectly normal evening on Broad Street: cops on the beat and girlies giggling and drinking. I had been really looking forward to meeting Louise in persons as I'd had a most stimulat...
Posted by Wrote Under Publishing on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:36:00 PST

The Sunday Xpress 27th January 2008

There were strange stirrings in the house on Sunday morning: fortunately, I'd been researching Broad Street as part of an Arts Council-funded feasilibity study and continued my champagne and JD-induce...
Posted by Wrote Under Publishing on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:18:00 PST

Big Bren’s Cabaret; 21st January 2008: A Partial View

..............well, my dears, my last "review" certainly put the cat in cattery: reaquainting myself with some oldish and dear rock chums in the Prince of Wales, I recieved a stream of personal abuse ...
Posted by Wrote Under Publishing on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:08:00 PST

Comedy Night at the Newt, 16th January 2008

I said I'll give you gonzo style, he said tell it like it is. Well this is how it was: I hadn't evern been close to Birmingham since that '77 Ramones gig at the Town Hall when I got drunk with Julie....
Posted by Wrote Under Publishing on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:38:00 PST

Wrote Under Alternative Comedy Night - Prices and Perfs.

Hello! Wrote Under is proud to announce its first proper alternative comedy night at the Newt (fromerly the Newt and Cucumber) - £3 on the door, get there for half 7, show starts at eight. This...
Posted by Wrote Under Publishing on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:07:00 PST